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Films like Examined Life.

Examined Life (2008) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) poster
1. Los Angeles Plays Itself2003

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) poster
2. Clouds of Sils Maria2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Dear Doctor (2009) poster
3. Dear Doctor2009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) poster
4. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lust Stories (2018) poster
5. Lust Stories2018

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) poster
6. George Harrison: Living in the Material World2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Alila (2003) poster
7. Alila2003

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Medicine for Melancholy (2008) (2008) poster
8. Medicine for Melancholy2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Listen to Me Marlon (2015) poster
9. Listen to Me Marlon2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Side by Side (2012) (2012) poster
10. Side by Side2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Three (2010) poster
11. Three2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Everyone Else (2009) poster
12. Everyone Else2009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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